For it is the duty of the good man to teach others the good that you could not work because of the malignity of the times or of fortune, so that when many are capable of it, someone of them more loved by heaven will be able to work it.

Sunday, 17 May 2009

Captain Trips

‘Recall Husserl’s dark dream, from his Cartesian Meditations of how the transcendental cogito would remain unaffected by a plague that would annihilate all humanity.’Slavoj Žižek, In Defence of Lost Causes (2008), p.169

good one! Although I'm not sure I should forgive you this democratic materialist deviation. What effect would such a plague have on Badiou's 'objective phenomenology' (cf Logics)? I can't help but think the number of events would go down (further).

have you been checking out his remarks on correlationism? I've only skimmed Logics but it seemed to me he makes the discourse of ontology pretty reliant on humanity but then makes (or tries to make) appearance non-correlational? Hence the strange remarks about the phenomenology of dinosaurs... (my copy is in work or I would have posted the quote)